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Collection Number: 5562

Collection Title: Paul Green Foundation Records, 1930s-2000s

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Size 52.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 20,000 items)
Abstract The collection contains materials by and about white twentieth-century playwright and social justice activist Paul Green (1894-1981) of North Carolina and the administrative records of the Paul Green Foundation, a grant funding agency founded in 1982 to support the arts and human rights. Paul Green materials include correspondence, scripts, handwritten notes and outlines for dramatic works, musical scores, lyric sheets, a song book, research files for Green's symphonic dramas, a card file of idiomatic expressions compiled by Green and used in Paul Green's Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence, newspaper clippings, printed items especially from theatrical venues, and photographs chiefly of theatrical productions of his work. Symphonic dramas represented in the collection include Cross and Sword , Lone Star, The Common Glory, The Highland Call, Trumpet in the Land, Serenata, and The Stephen Foster Story. The administrative records are financial materials, extensive biographical files on Green including articles about him, minutes and agendas for board meetings, copies and transcriptions of Green's poetry from the First World War, files for events and projects including a centennial celebration of Green's birth in 1994, and correspondence especially with Rhoda H. Wynn and Laurence Avery. Of interest are files pertaining to the foundation and Green's active opposition to capital punishment and the letters by Avery and others requesting commutation of death sentences.
Creator Paul Green Foundation.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Paul Green Foundation Records #5562, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Marsha Warren in May 2013 (Acc. 101796).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Encoded by: Laura Smith

Processed by Nicole Cvjetnicanin, March 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.

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